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Kafka on Azure HDInsight is an enterprise-grade streaming ingestion service that allows you to quickly and easily setup, use, scale and monitor your Kafka clusters in the cloud. Kafka provides a fault tolerant, distributed pub sub model to enable real-time solutions such as Internet of Things (IoT), fraud detection, clickstream analysis, financial alerts, and social analytics.